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was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.
This work is a collection of essays describing an Irish enlisted man’s experience of the training leading up to his departure to fight in the first world war. (Excerpt from Goodreads)
Amateur Army
World War I in Irish Art and Literature
Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854-1992
Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854-1992
Irish on the Somme / Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front'
Irish at the Front
Soldier Poets
'Young Citizen Old Soldier". From boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme
Army of Amateurs
How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epaulettes
Legends of the Black Watch, or, Forty-Second Highlanders
Foot Soldiers